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AHA: More Than One-Third of U.S. Could Have Cardiovascular Disease by 2030: If current policies and prevention strategies go unchanged, the U. S. is facing “a cardiovascular crisis of alarming proportions,” said. Nancy Brown, CEO, American Heart Association. The aging U.S. population and the increase in medical spending are the …

FDA Says “Maybe Later” to Inhaled Insulin: MannKind’s whistle-sized inhaled insulin device, Afrezza, was designed to administer mealtime doses of powdered insulin in metered, single-use cartridges but ran into problems with the FDA over a redesign. FDA has asked for a new trial in Type 1 diabetes patients and another …

A New Aspirin Formulation Easier on Stomach: The main contraindication for aspirin that prevents people from using it are ulcers and GI irritation. A recent clinical trial involving a new drug formulation incorporating aspirin with soy-derived phosphatidylcholine found that the drug combination significantly reduced irritation to the stomach and upper …

Analysis Cautions against Wider Use of Statins: There is not enough evidence to recommend the widespread use of statins in people with no previous history of heart disease, scientists said last week. In a systematic review published in The Cochrane Library journal, researchers said the cholesterol-lowering drugs should be prescribed …

The FDA has declined to approve the Afrezza inhaled insulin device pending further data, device maker MannKind announced. The whistle-sized inhaler was designed to administer mealtime doses of powdered insulin in metered, single-use cartridges but ran into problems with the FDA over a redesign. More studies requested. FDA limits amount …

Most People Want to Know the Risk of Getting Diabetes: Researchers from Tufts Medical Center led a study of more than 1,400 people to determine if people would be willing to pay for a new blood test that would indicate the chances of developing a disease but would not help …

Asian Americans Show Higher Diabetes Rates: Despite being thinner, Asian Americans are more likely than whites to have Type 2 diabetes and the problem is growing, a new study which included 230,500 U.S. adults, finds. Diabetes rates rose over time reaching 8% among Asian adults and 6% among whites. Genes …

Resistance May Increase Risk of CVD in Type 1 Diabetes: The Coronary Artery Calcification in Type 1 Diabetes (CACTI) study assessed the role of insulin action on peripheral glucose utilization and nonesterified fatty acid (NEFA) suppression in predicting coronary artery calcification (CAC) in Type 1 diabetes. Compared to subjects without …

Kombiglyze XR now available: A new oral treatment for Type 2 diabetes is now available. Kombiglyze XR (saxagliptin and metformin hydrochloride 5/500, 5/1000, 2.5/1000)

One in 16 women hospitalized for childbirth has diabetes: More than a quarter million women who gave birth in U.S. hospitals in 2008 had pre-existing diabetes or developed it during their pregnancy. The federal agency also found that in 2008, the 35,500 women with pre-existing diabetes and the 232,300 with …